Open Source Java Music Composition Software

Give the chord progression and a style and JChordBox generates a song. JChordBox is a library tool that can generate backing tracks from a chord progression and a music style. A music Style is describe using an XML and a MIDI file. You can generate an XML Style file from a MIDI file by adding markers to delimit grooves. An XML Song file describes a chord progression and sets the music style to use. JChordBox comes with several command line tools (GenerateSong, CreateStyleFromMidiFile, SongPlayer …). NEW:The application center is called SongPlayer and is a text based user interface that can play JChordBox song. SongPlayer is a MIDI Player that can loop a song, mute or soloing tracks and displays transport informations. SongPlayer is now the default jar application. NEW:Examples have been added to the distribution package.

JDrummer is musical drum machine implemented as a Java Applet. It features up to eight tracks of notes playing simultaneously, user configurable Beats Per Minute and server side saving and loading of songs.

Delius is a free multiplataform music software based on braille music code and can be used either by sighted and non-sighted users. This software was developed in Java, has multilanguage support and it is intended to help visual impaired musicians to produce musical scores which can be exported to other symbolic music formats as MusicXML, MIDI and abc notation.

A music notation program to aid musicians in composing and understanding solos. Enable musicians to improve their understanding of chord changes and solos.

The MidiRandomizer is a Java Swing application that generates MIDI files (SMF) according to a set of randomization parameters. This allows some measure of control over the random patterns produced.

Open Musicwriter is a multi-platform open-source music score editor. It handles MIDI files and MusicXML files.

QuarkBeat is a software and a language to teach a random builder generator how to make rhythmical patterns

This is Roundware V1. For V2, please see GitHub repository: https://github.com/hburgund/roundware-server Roundware is a client/server pair for creating participatory location-sensitive audio experiences. It was initially developed for the sound art installation ROUND, by Halsey Burgund, exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Development for version 2 has been handled privately for a variety of reasons, but will be released soon! Please contact us if you need code sooner.

Fractal/Scripting VSTi synthesizer, written on Java with jVSTwrapper

A web application allowing to transpose music for diatonic harmonica between different tonations and notations.

A music maker which does not require headphones, written in Java. Note: This only works on Windows machines, and some machines do not support the "beep."

Tracked Music Editor Supports WAV, DLS files. Supports recording from MIDI devices.